New Extension Homemaker Units Grow in Franklin County
Two new groups join the Franklin County Extension Homemaker program. The Gladsome Gals serve younger women in Ottawa with 15 to 18 members. The Helpfil Homemakers revive Lane 32HU, boosting total units to 26. About 500 women, six percent of county’s female population, participate, mostly in their 20s to 40s with few between 30 and 40.
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Franklin County
Gladsome Gals
Ottawa
Helpfil
Sue Hellar
Soybean Association Meeting Set for Ottawa Dec 7
Kansas Soybean Association plans a Dec 7 annual meeting at Ottawa University from 9 30 a m to 3 p m with a producer panel and market experts. Wayne Dicken of De Soto leads the group and a wives program is scheduled. Attendees will hear Alan Holtz Robert Judd Hill Syverson Dennis Blankenship and Cecil Nickels plus a Puerto Rico soybean winter nursery discussion. Five Kansas and Missouri soybean firms will host the noon luncheon. Verlin Peterson urges bringing prospective members.
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Kansas Soybean Association
Ottawa
Wayne Dicken
DeSoto
Ottawa University
Cers
Rom Alan Holtz
Foreign Agricultural Service
Washington
Robert Judd
National Soybean Crop Improvement Council
Urbana
Hill
Mepy
Syverson
Torqun American Sybean Association
Hudson
Iowa
Dennis Blankenship
ASA
Cecil Nickels
Ansas State University
Puerto Rico
Kansas
Missouri
Verlin Peterson
K-State
Jaycees OYF Big Farmer winner profiles Tom Weigand
Tom Weigand of Ottawa RFD 4 rises from hired hand to partner in 13 years, growing from a 430 acre dairy operation to 1,865 acres with a major hog and cattle enterprise. He and wife Mary manage farming and finances while engaging in community service and industry groups. A stray note recalls Honolulu DJ Pogo riding a ferris wheel for over 17 days in 1966.
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Joan Istas
Ottawa Jaycees
Tom Weigand
Ottawa Rfd 4
Kansas State University
Kurt
Tom
Weigands
Weigards
Franco
Mary
Kansas Farm Management Association
Franklin County
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Ottawa
Kansasivestock Association
Ottawa Co-Op Board
Kansas Pork Producers Council
Nancy
Jill
Adam
Honolulu
Pogo Pogo
Extension Program December 19 Seminar at Farm Bureau Room
A Kansas State University extension engineers’ team will lead a December 19 session on planning grain and feed handling facilities at the Farm Bureau meeting room starting 10 a.m. The lineup includes Grain Storage and Processing Center planning and Grain Handling Systems with discussions on Drying Methods and Aerating Grain. Attendees may pose questions afterward. Also noted is autumn olive, a 10 to 15 foot shrub promoted by State and Extension Forestry at K State, with growth suitability tested and recommended for eastern Kansas windbreaks and wildlife cover. Order forms for autumn olive and other seedlings are available at Franklin. A two day Basic Milker’s School at Kansas State University will be Jan 2–3 1975, requiring 20 participants and a $15 registration to the Kansas Mastitis Council. The course runs 8:30 a.m. start on Thursday Jan 2, 1975.
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Robert Bozworth
Farm Bureau
Wendling
Elwyn Holmes
Kansas State University
Asia
Kansas
Soil Conservation Service Plant Materials
Center Sea van Jattan
Hoyer
Franklin
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First National Bank OF Ottawa
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